The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

As a result, the evolutionary pressures that once favored the appendix have largely disappeared. Meanwhile, the medical risks of keeping the appendix – most notably appendicitis – remain. Modern ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.